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  Say Girls, Antoinette is Engaged!

  Strohmeyer and Wyman

  The stereograph features a black and white image of four women gathered around a table. One is standing at the center with arms outstretched while the others sit and look in her direction. The image is mounted on a cream card with rounded edges.

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  Sports on the great Ice Mountain, Niagara Falls, U. S. A.

  Strohmeyer and Wyman

  The stereograph features a black and white image of a crowd of men, women, and children playing in the snow. A large rock structure stands in the background. The image is mounted on a cream card with rounded corners.

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  The Story of the Battle-Our country victorious and now a happy home

  Strohmeyer and Wyman

  The stereograph features a black and white image of a seated man with a wounded arm. A woman sits in his lap. The image is mounted on a cream card with rounded corners. Reverse features the title in six languages: eng ; fre ; ger ; spa ; swe ; rus.

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  A Knight of Labor

  Strohmeyer and Wyman and Underwood and Underwood

  The stereograph contains a black and white image of a man holding a baby while a woman sleeps in a bed. The image is on a peach-colored paper card mount.

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  Lover's Lane, Central Park, New York, U.S.A

  Strohmeyer and Wyman and Underwood and Underwood

  The stereograph contains a black and white image of a man and woman walking along Lover's Lane in Central Park. The image is on a cream colored card mount.

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  Lincoln Gagged by Terrorism

  Paul Szep

  The object is a mounted photographic copy of a cartoon depicting the Abraham Lincoln statue at the Lincoln Memorial. In the cartoon, the statue wears a gag labeled TERRORISM. The cartoon features an inscription to Frank Williams.

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  “The Johnson Treatment.”

  George Tames and Gallery 53

  Four black and white photographs, matted, of Lyndon B. Johnson and Theodore F. Green. “George Thames, the legendary New York Times photographer, brilliantly captures the essence of Lyndon B. Johnson’s power in this series of 1957 images called ‘The Johnso

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  The Great American Series Abraham Lincoln Commemorative Bottle

  T. C. Wheaton Company

  The amber-colored carnival glass bottle features an embossed portrait of Abraham Lincoln and text at its front. The reverse features an excerpt from the Gettysburg address, which is surrounded by a series of stars around the perimeter of the decanter.

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  The Great American Series Abraham Lincoln Commemorative Decanter

  T. C. Wheaton Company

  The blue-colored carnival glass bottle features an embossed portrait of Abraham Lincoln and text at its front. The reverse features an excerpt from the Gettysburg address, which is surrounded by a series of stars around the perimeter of the decanter.

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  The Great American Series Robert E. Lee Commemorative Decanter

  T. C. Wheaton Company

  The green hued decanter features an embossed portrait of Robert E. Lee. On its reverse, the decanter features an image of a Confederate flag.

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  Brutus and Caesar. (From the American Edition of Shakespeare.)

  John Tenniel

  Wood-engraved cartoon from the Victorian-era publication Punch. The cartoon depicts Abraham Lincoln dressed as Marcus Junius Brutus. An African-American man stands next to him dressed as Julius Caesar. An African-American man dressed in clown-like clothing is shown sleeping in the background.

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  Extremes Meet.

  John Tenniel

  Wood-engraved cartoon from the Victorian-era publication Punch. The cartoon depicts Abraham Lincoln and Alexander II, Emperor of Russia, shaking hands as violence ensues in the background.

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  Mrs. North and Her Attorney.

  John Tenniel

  Wood-engraved cartoon from the Victorian-era publication Punch. The cartoon depicts Abraham Lincoln as a lawyer sitting behind a desk with a quill to his lips. A woman, Mrs. North, sits in a chair beside him. The message of the cartoon is pro-Democrat in that it calls for peace, no matter the cost (i.e., the continuation of slavery).

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  Oberon and Titania.

  John Tenniel

  Wood-engraved cartoon from the Victorian-era publication Punch. The cartoon depicts Abraham Lincoln dressed as Oberon. He gestures toward Miss Virginia dressed as Titania, who holds the hand of an African-American child. The cartoon is in reference to England's reaction to Lincoln attempting to purchase enslaved persons from the South in order to end the conflict.

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  "Rowdy" Notions of Emancipation.

  John Tenniel

  Wood-engraved cartoon from the Victorian-era publication Punch. The cartoon depicts a caricature image of Abraham Lincoln with his back turned against an anti-black mob scene. The cartoon is in reference to the extreme violence used against African-American people during the New York City Draft Riots of July 13-16, 1863. Eyewitness accounts of the riots are partially reprinted in the caption below the image.

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  The American Brothers; or, "How Will They Get out of It?"

  John Tenniel

  Wood-engraved cartoon from the Victorian-era publication Punch. The cartoon depicts bound figures of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis seated on benches and bound with ropes labeled 'Debt.' The cartoon highlights a popular opinion in England that Lincoln would not win the 1864 election.

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  The American Difficulty.

  John Tenniel

  Wood-engraved cartoon from the Victorian-era publication Punch. The cartoon depicts a caricature image of Abraham Lincoln seated before a fireplace stoking a fire.

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  The Black Draft.

  John Tenniel

  Wood-engraved cartoon from the Victorian-era publication Punch. The cartoon depicts a caricature of Abraham Lincoln holding a seated African-American man at gunpoint. To the right, Jefferson Davis stands in front of another African-American man. Davis holds a whip in his hand. Both African-American men hold a cup in their hands labeled 'Conscription.' This cartoon suggests that both Lincoln and Davis forced African-American men into armed service; however, this piece of satire has a weak effect due to the fact that African-American men served as volunteers in the Union Army.

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  The Latest From America; Or, the New York 'Eye Duster' to be taken Every Day

  John Tenniel

  The print is a Civil War-era satirical cartoon where Abraham Lincoln's relationship with the press is depicted. In the image, Lincoln is shown serving a cocktail of bunkum, bosh, brag, and soft sawder behind a bar. He mixes the cocktail in two cups. The first is a cup of victory. From this cup, he pours the mixture into a second container, a cup of defeat. The liquid creates an arch over his head, which represents the New York Press. Several newspapers litter the bar's surface.

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  The Threatening Notice.

  John Tenniel

  Wood-engraved cartoon from the Victorian-era publication Punch. The cartoon depicts Abraham Lincoln as a lawyer handing a document labeled 'Abrogation of Canadian Treaties by Order of the Senate' to an eagle dressed as Uncle Sam. This was the last caricature of Lincoln Tenniel drew while the President was alive.

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  "Up a Tree." Colonel Bull and the Yankee 'Coon.

  John Tenniel

  Wood-engraved cartoon from the Victorian-era publication Punch. The cartoon depicts Abraham Lincoln as a raccoon that has been treed by John Bull, the personification of England. The cartoon was in response to the Trent Affair where two Confederate diplomats, James Murray Mason and John Slidell, were illegally captured by Union Captain Charles Wilkes while aboard a British ship en route to Britain and France. The incident threatened the end of peaceful relations between the United States and Great Britain; thus, the prisoners were released.

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  Look Out for Squalls

  John Tenniel and Bradbury and Evans

  The cartoon is a reproduction of a nineteenth century political cartoon that depicts figures representing U.S. and Great Britain, and refers to the Trent Affair, when the U.S. Navy illegally captured two Confederate diplomats from a British ship. The reproduction print has been removed from an unidentified bound volume. However, the original work appeared in the 7 December 1861 edition of Punch, a weekly British satirical magazine established in 1841 by wood engraver Ebenezer Landells and writer Henry Mayhew.

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  The Genu-ine Othello

  John Tenniel and Bradbury and Evans

  The cartoon is a reproduction of a nineteenth century political cartoon that depicts black man standing between threatening figures of Abraham Lincoln and a Southern sympathizer. The reproduction print has been removed from an unidentified bound volume. However, the original work appeared in the 9 November 1861 edition of Punch, a weekly British satirical magazine established in 1841 by wood engraver Ebenezer Landells and writer Henry Mayhew.

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  Henry Clay Commemorative Medal (from Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York University Medal Series)

  John Terken, Medallic Art Company, and Hall of Fame for Great Americans

  The medal's obverse design features a bust image of Henry Clay, an American lawyer and statesman. The reverse design depicts Clay standing with his proper right hand outstretched at his side. In his proper left hand he holds a document. An eagle soars through the sky in the scene's background.

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  Abraham Lincoln sketch on Plastic Plate

  Texas Ware and Unknown

  The plate is a plastic Texas Ware plate. On the plate's obverse, a portrait of Abraham Lincoln has been sketched and his name appears in handwritten script: A Lincoln... The image appears in brown. The plate's reverse features a Texas Ware stamp.